John buckland wright biography
- He soon realised that he wanted to be an artist more than an architect and by 1921 he was living in Belgium and was elected a member of the Gravure Originale Belge in 1925.
- John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) was a British printmaker, painter and draughtsman.
- Born in Dunedin, John Buckland Wright moved to Britain with his family at the age of seven.
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Painter, draughtsman, but primarily an etcher and engraver who was self-taught. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, Buckland Wright studied history at Oxford and then architecture in London. He soon realised that he wanted to be an artist more than an architect and by 1921 he was living in Belgium and was elected a member of the Gravure Originale Belge in 1925. Was also a member of Xylographes Belges, SWE and LG. During the 1930s Buckland Wright lived and worked in Paris and frequently visited S W Hayter’s Atelier 17. He had one-man shows in London and throughout the continent, sometimes signing his work J B W. Work held by Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum and many galleries and museums in Europe and America. A master printmaker with an assured, swirling line, Buckland Wright passed on his skills after World War II when he taught at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, from 1948, and the Slade School of Fine Art, from 1953, the year that his book Etching and Engraving: Techniques and the Modern Tre
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A pensive-looking JBW, aged 29.
John Buckland Wright, Brussels, 1926. Private Collection.
This limited edition book on John Buckland Wright's (JBW) engravings was published to coincide with a major exhibition of his work at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 1990. Edited by JBW's son Christopher, it contains a biography and comprehensive catalogue of his prints and illustrated books, a chronology prepared by JBW's daughter Elizabeth, accounts of his work as a printmaker and book illustrator as well as reflective memoirs of him as a teacher by colleagues and students. Café Dansant No. II (1930) is a wood-engraving of an open-air café scene at the Bois de la Cambre, Brussels. Considering the image conveyed, it was a place undoubtedly enjoyed by JBW.
The Engravings of John Buckland Wright. Aldershot [England]: Ashgate Editions, 1990. Special NE 1147.6.B83 BX12.
While living in Brussels, JBW met Mary Bell Anderson, a Scots-Canadian musician. After an engagement of three years, they married. This photograph was taken on their wedding day,
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John Buckland-Wright was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on December 3, 1897. His father died when he was young and, by 1908 his mother and he had move to England. He studied architecture at Clifton and Oxford but in 1924 he gave up an offer of an architectural partnership to become an artist. Buckland-Wright made the fortunate decision to settle in Brussels at the home of his mother and stepfather as Belgium in the mid 1920s where assembled one of the most vibrant artistic communities in Europe.
Buckland-Wright moved to Paris in 1929 and began to work with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 and was one of the acting directors when Hayter was unavailable. He returned to London in 1939 where he taught at Camberwell and, after 1952, the Slade School.
He worked primarily as a printmaker, illustrating numerous private press books, some of an erotic nature. Buckland-Wright’s work is represented in the collections of the Museum Meermanno in The Hague, Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery. The British Museum was bequeathed
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